[locked to Iris Fortner]

[lefthertainted]

Following up on the conversation we were having before in Phoebe's journal:

I actually have reason to believe there is a force or forces at work to keep most of the non-supernatural population from noticing the supernatural. There have been a number of large-scale disasters in the past that were clearly of supernatural origin--the destruction of the Conrad Hotel, for one, and the Ten Plagues that occurred in the fall of 2009, for another--but most of the residents of the city just can't seem to even consider the possibility of a supernatural origin for these events. Occurrences such as rivers of blood and frogs falling from the sky violate a number of laws of nature as we know them, but while non-supernaturals will notice and react to the events as they are happening, only few days later they seem to have almost forgotten.

Unfortunately, when the other residents of the city do notice what's going on, there is often a violent backlash, leading to the rise of terrorist groups such as the CLF. It's all to easy for people try to blame supernatural occurrences on the supernatural community. The fact that many people don't recognize us for what we are actually gives us a degree of safety, odd as it may sound.

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[sophicsulphur.livejournal.com]

I see. Thank you. Again, it's helpful to hear these things from the perspective of someone who's more familiar with the situation.

What I'm concerned about, I guess, is that we may be safe, but only for as long as we live a lie, pretending to be something that we're not. Non-human people can't even walk the streets without putting up an illusion of being human, right? That seems unfair-- it's like if every gay person had to pretend they were straight to be safe. You can create an illusion, but isn't that like admitting that what people like the CLF feel is right: that we're a shameful thing that should be hidden?

And even if that does help us in the short term-- even if it's easier to hide than it is to face the CLF and the root of the problems that create them-- I guess it feels like we're only getting ourselves hurt more in the long term, aren't we? Because if we don't tackle what the average person in this world feels about supernaturals, then every time someone does notice, we get groups like the CLF. I think that in the short term we're safer, but to be really safe in the long run, we need to fight the feelings out amongst people that are making them treat supernaturals like this in the first place.

Because of that, I'd like to do something. In the same way that gay people have a pride movement, I want to create one for supernaturals too. Right now I think that we can't be proud of ourselves or even show ourselves in public, and I don't want to live like that or have my friends live like that. It isn't fair, and I want to change people's minds.